Food packaging is built to reassure shoppers. Certain words sound meaningful but often describe far less than people assume.

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As Trump revisions to Obama regulatory policies are undertaken, the rhetoric about big policy issues will surely fly. The Obama Administration believed the economic cost of its regulatory surge was ...

Advocates arguing for greater transparency about the use of GMOs in food scored a minor victory this month after a district court told USDA to re-work the digital disclosure portions of the ...

As recently as 1993, the average buyer knew what they preferred between sweetened corn and oats for breakfast. They could walk into the store and pick their favourite cereal without giving it much ...

As both the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and Safe Food Advocacy Europe release reports detailing how the food industry conveys information, calls for change emerge. In September 2022, ...

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A potential FDA proposal would label Goldfish “medium” in saturated fat and sodium. (The placement and size of any U.S. label has yet to be determined.) The same product would bear stop-sign-shaped ...

Burdensome food labeling mandates were once the province of Democrats, who pushed for calorie count requirements on restaurant menus and insisted packaged food must feature warnings about genetically ...